Personally I found out thanks to the Ontario Parks’s newspaper! I would love to add a photo but can’t find it! I don’t know if it got in the trash or lost in my basement! Will add a photo when I find it! How did you discover iNaturalist?

I wanted to make an album to share online of Korean animals with ‘shaman’ (무당) in their name and noticed several of the Creative Commons images for Bombina orientalis (무당개구리) I came across were from iNaturalist. That got me to check out the site and I immediately became hooked.

Friends of Tokai Park on FB is also Tony Rebelo. who encouraged South Africa from iSpot to iNat. And then the City Nature Challenges.

HK Moths recommended iNaturalist in a Mothing group on facebook, when i first started out getting hooked on taking Moth pictures and had no idea how to ID them

Welcome to the community. :flushed: enjoy your stay

Cool topic! I love the natural world. It all started in 2012 with ebird as I became part of Audubon and they encouraged people to sign up. Eventually I did. By 2018 I know I wanted to branch out so I internet searched for other databases outside of birds. Discovered Odonata Central for dragon & da…

I “discovered” iNat twice. The first time was in 2014 when I submitted a few pictures but found it kind of amateurish and lame. A couple of years later I was in charge of a coastal restoration monitoring project. I ran the surveys but really didn’t know the vegetation, so I needed help with IDs an…

The portal was recommended to me by a friend of mine, a botanist from Florida.

A friend of mine brought it up to me in a conversation and I was transfixed since wandering looking for critters was something I did already. I downloaded it and started looking around my campus right away for things to observe. That was almost 3 years ago, now. I am starting to find my niche with M…

I used to work a very challenging job that had dulled my love for anything, really, but especially for the biotic world. Still, on my walk to the train station I’d take note of the plants and critters I’d run into, including snails. I wanted to know the species of snail and if there were invasive sn…

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I volunteer during park cleanups in my city. The parks department sent out emails about the BioBlitz one year and it sounded like fun, so I went. I put my observations in iNaturalist for that and got hooked.

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